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Question 7

A clinical psychologist investigated the success of two different psychological interventions for adolescent anorexia nervosa: Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) and Family-Based Treatment (FBT). After a 6-month treatment period, patients' outcomes were classified as either 'Full Remission' or 'Partial Remission'. The psychologist wanted to determine if there was a significant association between the type of therapy received and the clinical outcome. The results are shown in Table 1.

Calculate the chi-squared (χ2\chi^2χ2) value for this data by completing Table 2. Show your calculations and state your final χ2 \chi^2\,χ2 value to 2 decimal places.

Table 1: Observed frequency of patient remission by therapy type

Therapy TypeFull RemissionPartial Remission
DBT3010
FBT1525

Table 2: Chi-squared calculation template

TherapyOutcomeObserved (OOO)Expected (EEE)O−EO-EO−E(O−E)2(O-E)^2(O−E)2(O−E)2/E(O-E)^2/E(O−E)2/E
DBTFull Remission3022.5
Partial Remission1017.5
FBTFull Remission1522.5
Partial Remission2517.5
χ2\chi^2χ2 =
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